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| November 18 is the 323rd day of the year. There are 43 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 1307 William Tell shoots apple off his son's head; son wets pants. |
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| 1776 Pointy head Hessian jaegers capture Ft Lee, NJ, a Mr. Richard Feder writes. |
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| 1820 Antarctica is discovered by US Navy Captain Nathaniel B Palmer. |
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| 1852 State funeral for Duke of Wellington is over-produced thanks to an over-the-top gay designer. |
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| 1936 Main span of Golden Gate Bridge is happily joined in gay marriage |
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| 1951 Former Cubs 1st baseman and future TV star of Rifleman Chuck Connors is 1st player to oppose the major league draft. He got enough of a draft from his porno days no doubt. We know he got blown a lot. |
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| 1961 "Gay Life" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 113 performances. Continues as a popular website. |
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| 1966 Observing the Feast of St. Peter, US Roman Catholic bishops end rules against eating meat on Fridays so they can have dick everyday! |
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| 1975 Black-Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver returns to US, presumably (according to the National Lampoon) to market his new fashion invention. |
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| 1976 After 37 years of dictatorship, Spain's parliament establishes democracy with a king...and this is different how? |
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| 1978 Don’t drink the Kool-aid! In Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple cult in a mass murder-suicide that claims 918 lives in all, 909 of them at Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo J. Ryan is assassinated by members of Peoples Temple shortly beforehand |
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| 1993 WWF boss Vince McMahon is charged with steroid distribution. He tells ’em to kiss his ass. |
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| 2003 In the United Kingdom, the Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28, becomes effective. |
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| 2004 The phallic Clinton Presidential Center is opened in Little Rock, Arkansas, containing 2 million photographs, 80 million documents, and miscellaneous cigar butts, condoms, and blue dresses. The Ho Gallery proves to be a popular attraction |
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| 2005 Chiang Mai Night Safari opens in Thailand to look at animals in the dark instead of cruising for sex. Those silly Thais! |
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| 1874 Clarence Day, gay US author (Life with Father) |
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| 1928 Mickey Mouse, US cartoon character (his birthday is celebrated today, due to release of Steamboat Willie on November 18, 1928) |
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| 1927 Hank Ballard [John Henry Kendricks], maybe gay US singer/songwriter ("The Twist") |
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| 1947 José Alonso [Zepeda], Mexican actor |
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| 1962 Christopher Peterson, gay Canadian female impersonator/actor |
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| 1968 Owen Wilson, US actor/writer |
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| 1968 Romany Malco, US actor (Weeds) |
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| 1971 Paul Korver, maybe gay US actor |
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| 1975 Ant McPartlin, English comdeian/television presenter |
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| 1976 Steven Pasquale, US actor |
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| 1977 Trent Barrett, Australian rugger |
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| 1980 Emanuel Sandhu, maybe gay Canadian figure skater |
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| 1985 Christian Siriano, gay US fashion designer/Project Runway winner |
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| [Valentin Louis Georges Eugêne] Marcel Proust, gay French novelist (A la recherche du temps perdu), forgets things past |
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| 1972 Danny Whitten, maybe gay drug-abusing US musician and songwriter (Crazy Horse), doesn’t want to talk about it. |
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| 1986 Gia Carangi, gay US supermodel, succumbs to AIDS at 26. |
